Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1109/JMMCT.2023.3255010
Sheldon R. Steines;Brett L. Baxley;Andrew F. Peterson
The performance of several inexpensive local error estimation techniques is evaluated in connection with the Rao-Wilton-Glisson method of moments numerical solutions of the electric field integral equation. Results for 18 perfectly conducting test targets are used to evaluate the performance of the estimators. Two of the estimators produce error maps that consistently exhibit high correlations with reference solutions. These estimators are also suitable for “goal-oriented” estimation of secondary quantities, such as identifying cells that contribute the most error to the radar cross section of the target.
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A parallel multiphysics simulation solver is developed to solve electromagnetic-thermal-mechanical coupling for some challenging large-scale antenna arrays. To achieve high scalability of supercomputer architectures, we reconstruct the preconditioned BiCGSTAB method and the non-overlapping domain decomposition method, so that the most resource-intensive matrix factorization steps can be performed in parallel independently within subdomains. The electromagnetic and thermal fields are solved separately, while coupled through the dissipated power and the temperature-dependent material parameters; after thermal steady state is reached, the mechanical simulation is stimulated subject to the temperature rise. The accuracy of electromagnetic-thermal coupling and thermal stress solution are first validated, and then the strong/weak parallel scalability experiments of the developed multiphysics solver are performed on supercomputer. Finally, an extremely challenging antenna array is simulated using the proposed solver, where to our best knowledge we bring the scale of multiphysics simulations excited by frequency-domain electromagnetic fields to the order of billion unknowns for the first time.
{"title":"Multiphysics Computing of Challenging Antenna Arrays Under a Supercomputer Framework","authors":"Hao-Xuan Zhang;Qiwei Zhan;Li Huang;Da-Wei Wang;Yin-Da Wang;Wei-Jie Wang;Zhen-Guo Zhao;Hai-Jing Zhou;Kai Kang;Liang Zhou;Wen-Yan Yin","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2023.3254661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2023.3254661","url":null,"abstract":"A parallel multiphysics simulation solver is developed to solve electromagnetic-thermal-mechanical coupling for some challenging large-scale antenna arrays. To achieve high scalability of supercomputer architectures, we reconstruct the preconditioned BiCGSTAB method and the non-overlapping domain decomposition method, so that the most resource-intensive matrix factorization steps can be performed in parallel independently within subdomains. The electromagnetic and thermal fields are solved separately, while coupled through the dissipated power and the temperature-dependent material parameters; after thermal steady state is reached, the mechanical simulation is stimulated subject to the temperature rise. The accuracy of electromagnetic-thermal coupling and thermal stress solution are first validated, and then the strong/weak parallel scalability experiments of the developed multiphysics solver are performed on supercomputer. Finally, an extremely challenging antenna array is simulated using the proposed solver, where to our best knowledge we bring the scale of multiphysics simulations excited by frequency-domain electromagnetic fields to the order of billion unknowns for the first time.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"8 ","pages":"165-177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49981539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-03DOI: 10.1109/JMMCT.2023.3252053
Shuai S. A. Yuan;Zhu Hong Lin;Li-Bin Lv;Shu-Ji Hao;Wei E. I. Sha
The artificial field-aligned irregularity (AFAI) in ionosphere can be generated by heating the ionosphere with high-power high-frequency radio waves, and the physical structures of AFAIs are modeled as elongated multiple multilayer plasma cylinders. At relatively low frequencies, AFAIs could work as natural reflectors for long-distance communications. In order to evaluate the performance of AFAI-based communications, it is crucial to obtain the objective radar cross section (RCS) of AFAIs quickly and accurately. On account of the large electrical size of AFAIs, it would be time-consuming to calculate the objective RCS by full-wave simulations, meanwhile, the accuracies of the existing approximated methods are limited in many scenarios. In this paper, the T-matrix algorithm is used for analytically calculating the objective RCS of AFAIs after making reasonable approximations. Compared to the results obtained from full-wave simulations, the errors of objective RCS are within an acceptable range while the computation time is largely reduced. Furthermore, the scattering characteristics of AFAIs at different frequencies are investigated. The proposed method could be readily implemented for investigating and predicting the performance of AFAI-based long-wave communications.
{"title":"Investigating the Scattering Characteristics of Artificial Field-Aligned Irregularities Based on T-Matrix Algorithm","authors":"Shuai S. A. Yuan;Zhu Hong Lin;Li-Bin Lv;Shu-Ji Hao;Wei E. I. Sha","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2023.3252053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2023.3252053","url":null,"abstract":"The artificial field-aligned irregularity (AFAI) in ionosphere can be generated by heating the ionosphere with high-power high-frequency radio waves, and the physical structures of AFAIs are modeled as elongated multiple multilayer plasma cylinders. At relatively low frequencies, AFAIs could work as natural reflectors for long-distance communications. In order to evaluate the performance of AFAI-based communications, it is crucial to obtain the objective radar cross section (RCS) of AFAIs quickly and accurately. On account of the large electrical size of AFAIs, it would be time-consuming to calculate the objective RCS by full-wave simulations, meanwhile, the accuracies of the existing approximated methods are limited in many scenarios. In this paper, the T-matrix algorithm is used for analytically calculating the objective RCS of AFAIs after making reasonable approximations. Compared to the results obtained from full-wave simulations, the errors of objective RCS are within an acceptable range while the computation time is largely reduced. Furthermore, the scattering characteristics of AFAIs at different frequencies are investigated. The proposed method could be readily implemented for investigating and predicting the performance of AFAI-based long-wave communications.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"8 ","pages":"147-157"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49981537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}